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A man who tried to rob a couple returning home early Sunday morning was shot and killed, PBSO said. The couple, who live in the 5100 block of Palm Hill Drive, were walking to their apartment about 2:12 a.m. when a man with a gun approached them, police said. The unidentified man ordered the couple into their apartment and followed them. As he searched their things, the man with the gun and the male victim began to fight. The male victim grabbed the gun and shot the suspected robber, police said.

Police are asking for the public's help to identify the person who robbed a CVS pharmacy last month. Authorities will pay $1,000 for any information leading to the arrest of the armed robber that went into the CVS Pharmacy at 11100 Pines Blvd. at around 4 a.m. on February 25, according to a report Broward Crime Stoppers released on Friday. A surveillance snapshot from the incident shows the man wearing a black baseball cap, gray T-shirt, beige shorts and white shoes. He is described as 5 feet 6 inches tall, 150 lbs and in his early-to-mid 20s. Anyone with information on the identity or location of the suspect is being urged to call Broward Crime Stoppers anonymously at 954-493-8477.

The Broward Sheriff's Office on Monday released surveillance video of a robber who forced two Walgreens employees to the floor and held them at gunpoint for several minutes. Deputies are asking the public to help find the gunman and an accomplice, both of whom entered the Walgreens store at 110 E. Prospect Road about 9:30 p.m. Nov. 19. The accomplice roamed the store while the gunman forced an employee to enter the manager's office with him. He clenched the gun with both hands as he ordered the employee and a manager who was inside the office to get on the floor.

The cost of cookies may be the motive behind a robbery at a Subway sandwich shop in Pompano Beach, according to the Broward Sheriff's Office. Detectives are searching for the man who was seen on surveillance video jumping the counter to grab a fistful of cash after becoming upset at the price of the restaurant's cookies, officials said. The suspect walked into the Subway shop at 898 N. Federal Hwy. at 10:24 p.m. on May 1 and started pacing back and forth, the video showed. The man picked up a soda and a bag of chips but seemed to change his mind and put the items back before approaching the register.

Today's bad guys even turn a holdup into a scam. On Monday a man who robbed a Kangaroo store in Ocala told the clerk that he'd been carjacked by two armed men who were out in his car, and that they were forcing him to rob the store. No weapon was seen and the crook got away with $55 cash, according to a news release from the Ocala Police Department. The next day the same guy walked into the Steak 'n Shake, also in Ocala, and told employees there was one man outside in his car and two at his house who were making him rob their restaurant.

Police have released a composite sketch and a surveillance photo in an effort to identify the man who robbed a pharmacy Monday at gunpoint. According to information from North Palm Beach police, the robbery happened about 9:20 a.m. at Winships Pharmacy, in the 700 block of Northlake Boulevard. A man armed with a semi-automatic handgun went into the pharmacy, jumped over the counter, pointed the weapon at workers and demanded the drug oxycodone, police said. It's unclear how much of the drug the man may have made off with.

Expecting to collect $705 for an iPhone during a meeting Sunday arranged on Craigslist, Serkan Demir instead found himself staring down the barrel of a pistol. "He was shoving the gun in my face," said Demir, 25, a college student from Turkey. Demir had advertised a new iPhone 4s for sale on Craigslist earlier Sunday. Brandon Hollis,18, agreed to meet Demir around 9:15 p.m. Sunday in the lot of Demir's Pompano Beach apartment complex. But Hollis, police said, pulled out a small chrome pistol.

Broward Crime Stoppers on Thursday announced a reward of up to $1,000 for information leading to the arrests of two armed robbers who held up a beauty supply store in Sunrise last month. No one was hurt in the robbery, which occurred at 5:30 p.m. Sept. 21 at Discount Corner Beauty Supply, at 1079 Sunset Strip. In surveillance photos released by Crime Stoppers on Thursday, the two robbers are seen separately walking through store aisles, each reaching with his left hand into his pocket or waistband.

The FBI has released surveillance photos of an armed man robbing a SunTrust Bank in Lake Worth. One photo appears to show a bearded male wearing a black T-shirt and white hat approaching the teller window with a silver handgun in his left hand and a small red gasoline container in his right. The robbery happened on Wednesday at about 3:25 p.m. in the SunTrust branch at 1 S. Dixie Highway, in Lake Worth. By the time Palm Beach County Sheriff's Office deputies arrived, the robber had fled the bank southbound on foot after demanding money at gunpoint and pouring gasoline on the teller's counter.

Two robbery suspects were arrested Tuesday when one of their victims saw the woman wearing a stolen green dress, Boca Raton police said. Jeremy Mankoff, 23, and Kayla Riggar, 22, of Boca Raton, were charged with multiple counts of burglary, grand theft and possession of a controlled substance, police said. Clothes, electronics and jewelry were taken from a Boca Raton apartment, police said. The victims saw the suspects in their building Sunday in the 400 block of Northwest 20th Street asking about the main office, police said.